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Copper Contributor

May 07, 2025

need to create a PTR record via PS | Need your help !

Hello dear community, I am trying to update PTR records in my DNS manager using PowerShell script and I am using the below script, it works only when a reverse zone is already existing but I have a ...

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Andres-Bohren

Iron Contributor

May 08, 2025

Hi Arlecchino

You check if the Zone exists, but do not acutally create one if it does not exist...

# Check if reverse zone exists
        $zoneExists = Get-DnsServerZone -Name $reverseZone -ComputerName $DnsServer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
        if (-not $zoneExists) {
            throw "Reverse zone $reverseZone does not exist on server $DnsServer"
        }

Arlecchino
Copper Contributor
May 09, 2025
Hi Andres-Bohren,

Probably you missed this part of the script. it is in else part of the script

# Create new record - FIXED SECTION
Write-Host " [CREATE] Adding new PTR record for $ptrName pointing to $hostname"

# Explicitly create the record object
$newPtrRecord = @{
ZoneName = $reverseZone
Name = $ptrName
PtrDomainName = $hostname
ComputerName = $DnsServer
ErrorAction = 'Stop'
}